NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SIERRA LEONE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Lansana Gberie, the new Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Gberie had been serving as a Political Economy and Security Sector Reform Expert at the United Nations Development Programme project on Liberia Public Expenditure Review of the Justice and Security Sector from November 2017 to March 2018, and as a Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations Mission in Liberia from October 2016 to June 2017. He was also member of the Kimberley Process Review Mission Team for Venezuela in April 2016.

From January 2013 to October 2015, Mr. Gberie was appointed by the Secretary-General as Coordinator and Finance Expert of the United Nations Panel of Experts on Liberia. Between 2011 and 2013, he worked as a Senior Researcher/Political Analyst for the Security Council report in New York. In 2010 and 2011, he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Mr. Gberie also worked as Head of the Liberia Country Office and Senior Associate at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (2008-2009), as Senior Research Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Ghana (2004-2006), and as Head of the West Africa Programme and Senior Researcher for the International Diamond Trade and Human Security Project of Partnership Africa Canada in Ottawa (1999-2004).

He holds a PhD from VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, in social sciences (Africa), a master’s degree in international relations and military history from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and a bachelor’s degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He has a number of publications.


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